Acerca del masoquismo en Freud

Abstract

Freud presents masochism as an economical problem, and as a danger to the principle of pleasure, guardian of life. Why? In order to answer his question, he thinks of masochism as: feminine (feminine enjoyment as fantasized by the man), primitively erogenous (encounter of a primitive death drive and libido, which comes from the Other's ground), and moral masochism (where the Superego's sadism is the partner of Ego's masochism, leading to satisfaction in guilt). What is novel is naming an unconscious morality, which is rather different from his previous viewpoint that settles the roots of morality in the Oedipus complex and infantile sexuality. As a result of this work we can think of masochism as the name of a pleasure that can't be dissolved, and which finds its articulation in the symptom (only partially reductible and human), and desire as a defense against pleasure.